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True Cost of Oracle’s New ZFS Hybrid Storage Appliance : CIO Tips
Wikibon recently published a report on the Oracle ZFS storage appliance, ultimately giving it a rather positive review. The IT market research firm has been very critical of Oracle products and policies in the past, which makes this recommendation all the more noteworthy. The ZFS’s design is a true “flash-first” hybrid storage architecture. That is an interesting ...
Where Does Software-Defined Storage Fit Into the IT Renaissance? #NetAppChat Highlights
Yesterday we teamed up with storage firm NetApp and The Wikibon Project to host the #NetAppChat on the growing market of software-defined storage (SDS), and the value it brings to the enterprise space. NetApp is betting big on SDS. Architecture is evolving and the data center is moving and changing quickly too. How does software-defined storage ...
LIVE: GE CEO Jeff Immelt Says Consumer Internet Out, Industrial Internet In
On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn about GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s big bet on Big Data and the Industrial Internet replacing our current Consumer Internet. A direct quote from the story: There is a massive business opportunity in using software to anticipate industrial ...
LIVE: Connected Data Transporter 2.0, Here to Replace Your Dropbox
On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn about Connected Data announcing version 2.0 of its Transporter, and a possible merger with Drobo. Transporter is Connected Data’s bottle-shaped desktop drive that raised more than $260k on Kickstarter. Existing owners will get the updated Transporter functionality ...
Software-Defined Storage (#SDS) What it Means for the Enterprise Space #NetAppChat [Part 1]
Today we teamed up with storage firm NetApp and The Wikibon Project to host the #NetAppChat on the growing market of software-defined storage (SDS), and the value it brings to the enterprise space. NetApp is betting big on SDS. Architecture is evolving and the data center is moving and changing quickly too. How does software-defined ...
LIVE: Liberty Reserve Seizure: the Spark Regulation Demands for Bitcoin + Virtual Currencies?
Updated with full video – see below. On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we continue the discussion on the U.S. government closure and seizure of Liberty Reserve, alleging that the online company acted as “a financial hub of the cyber-crime world.” Yesterday, U.S. federal law ...
LIVE: U.S. Increasingly Worried About Chinese Gov’t in Hacking U.S. Military Networks
Updated with full video – see below On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn more about how Chinese hackers reportedly compromised U.S. designs for more than two dozen weapons. According to a report prepared for the Pentagon on Monday, designs for many of the ...
Spending on Converged Infrastructure Will Hit $17.8 Billion in 2016
According to a recent IDC study, the research firm estimates that the overall spending on converged systems in the data center will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 54.7 percent, from $2.0 billion in 2011 to $17.8 billion in 2016. Converged infrastructure will account for 12.8 percent of total storage, server, networking ...
4 Things CIOs Must Know : Google Compute Engine (GCE) + the Public Cloud
Last week I did a series of what CIOs need to know and consider for Google Compute Engine (GCE). Our coverage touched on four areas of importance as noted by Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman: Google Compute Engine’s market position (specifically how it compares to Amazon Web Services), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), the public cloud ...
LIVE: Google Glass Will Soon Let Strangers Know Your Name
On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss new software from Lamda Labs and facial recognition with Google Glass. The first version of Lamda Labs software doesn’t have real-time recognition. It forces users to take photographs, tag them with information on who is in them ...